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About Laurita Rodriguez
Laurita Rodriguez is an Associate Attorney at Meirowitz & Wasserberg's New York City office, where her practice focuses on personal injury matters including motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, wrongful death, and civil rights cases involving police misconduct under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983.
Laurita has approximately six years of attorney experience, plus an additional five years of pre-law work at a plaintiffs' personal injury firm. Before joining Meirowitz & Wasserberg, she served as a Senior Trial Attorney at Brooklyn Defender Services, where she represented clients in criminal and civil matters.
Laurita earned her Juris Doctor from Roger Williams University School of Law and her undergraduate degree from Mercy College. She is bilingual in English and Spanish. She is an active member of the Metropolitan Black Bar Association and the Dominican Bar Association, and has served as a lecturer at the City University of New York (CUNY) on constitutional law, criminal justice, and urban community issues.
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A Richland County jury unanimously awarded $32 million, including $10 million in punitive damages against Kraft Heinz, after finding that secondhand asbestos fibers carried home on work clothes caused Kathy Weist's fatal mesothelioma diagnosis.
A Boston jury found on Sept. 13, 2024 that Cimbar Performance Minerals misrepresented the safety of its Elite Talc 2000 and that its negligence helped cause a Utah man's mesothelioma, which was diagnosed seven years after he received talc during a 2014 pleurodesis. It is the first known verdict on that theory. The jury awarded about $39.1 million, and the trial judge later cut the future pain and suffering item from $21.5 million to $6 million. About $23.6 million stood.
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